1) It looks like he plans on bumping his mileage up now that he has more time to run.

2) He says he thinks he has less pressure as a pro.

Japan TImes wrote:

“I’ve had bigger fears until now (as an amateur),” said Kawauchi, who previously held serious practices twice a week or so and ran as many as 780 km per month, while some of the top industrial athletes cover 1,000 km. “I was called the ‘Civil Service Runner’ and if I failed, complaint phone calls would ring, for example. There were things that were tougher than being a pro. Being a government worker, the phone number and address (for your workplace) are all open. That means you could directly get letters, you could directly get phone calls....

3) And my favorite part of the article was how he pointed out there tend to be two types of pros. The fast ones who don't give a **** about interacting with the fans and the slow ones who do. He wants to do both.

Japan TImes wrote:
There are already many pro runners in Japan, but Kawauchi stressed that he would like to be one of a kind . He thinks that there are two kinds of pro runners in the country: national team-level runners who don’t make many public appearances and others who aren’t as good that show up at events to promote the sport. Kawauchi wants to handle both roles, being competitive and recognized by the public.

As an amateur runner, Kawauchi didn’t have any social media accounts.

That changed on Monday, when he created a Twitter account (@kawauchi2019) and opened one on Facebook. By Thursday night, he already had more than 15,200 followers on Twitter.

dfa

RE: Yuki Kawauchi has quit his job and started as a pro runner and opened a twitter account. Thinks he has less pressure as pro4/5/2019 2:30PM - in reply to rojo

I hope it works for him. I've never been a fan of messing with what works but he's probably gone as far as he can doing it how he's done it. The big revelation for me in the article is that he has a brother, Yoshiki, who is also a professional runner. Does anyone know anything about him? Searching for his name only brought up stories about Yuki.

Gonna get married

RE: Yuki Kawauchi has quit his job and started as a pro runner and opened a twitter account. Thinks he has less pressure as pro4/5/2019 5:14PM - in reply to HRE

1) It looks like he plans on bumping his mileage up now that he has more time to run.

2) He says he thinks he has less pressure as a pro.

Japan TImes wrote:

“I’ve had bigger fears until now (as an amateur),” said Kawauchi, who previously held serious practices twice a week or so and ran as many as 780 km per month, while some of the top industrial athletes cover 1,000 km. “I was called the ‘Civil Service Runner’ and if I failed, complaint phone calls would ring, for example. There were things that were tougher than being a pro. Being a government worker, the phone number and address (for your workplace) are all open. That means you could directly get letters, you could directly get phone calls....

3) And my favorite part of the article was how he pointed out there tend to be two types of pros. The fast ones who don't give a **** about interacting with the fans and the slow ones who do. He wants to do both.

Japan TImes wrote:
There are already many pro runners in Japan, but Kawauchi stressed that he would like to be one of a kind . He thinks that there are two kinds of pro runners in the country: national team-level runners who don’t make many public appearances and others who aren’t as good that show up at events to promote the sport. Kawauchi wants to handle both roles, being competitive and recognized by the public.

As an amateur runner, Kawauchi didn’t have any social media accounts.

That changed on Monday, when he created a Twitter account (@kawauchi2019) and opened one on Facebook. By Thursday night, he already had more than 15,200 followers on Twitter.

Well…...This is great news! At last he goes pro as he told after his Boston win……. Will be very interesting to see if he can run faster than his 2:08:14 marathon best with fulltime pro training.

4%=cheating

RE: Yuki Kawauchi has quit his job and started as a pro runner and opened a twitter account. Thinks he has less pressure as pro4/5/2019 5:21PM - in reply to Gonna get married

I hope it works for him. I've never been a fan of messing with what works but he's probably gone as far as he can doing it how he's done it. The big revelation for me in the article is that he has a brother, Yoshiki, who is also a professional runner. Does anyone know anything about him? Searching for his name only brought up stories about Yuki.

He has two brothers, actually. Both run competitively. All three have raced ultras together. This has been reported/translated by Japan Running News for years now.

jiaaf

RE: Yuki Kawauchi has quit his job and started as a pro runner and opened a twitter account. Thinks he has less pressure as pro4/5/2019 6:01PM - in reply to 4%=cheating

Calling it now, he goes 2:07-2:06. I give him a 10% chance of breaking the non 4% cheater fly Japanese record of 2:06:16.

Not likely. Very few runners set a personal best in the marathon when their best time is 6 years ago.

I don't think that applies here. He has not had this much time to train before this point because of his job. Now that he doesnt have that holding him back, he can train more than he did when he set his PR

Free_the_thigh

RE: Yuki Kawauchi has quit his job and started as a pro runner and opened a twitter account. Thinks he has less pressure as pro4/5/2019 6:56PM - in reply to rojo

Kind of interesting, maybe nothing, JRN has covered YK for over 10 years, but almost nothing, so far on JRN about YK's transition to pro. Also his mother is running Boston in two weeks. And YK is getting married, and so are the brothers. All over Japan Yahoo the past two weeks.

Just tellin it like it is

RE: Yuki Kawauchi has quit his job and started as a pro runner and opened a twitter account. Thinks he has less pressure as pro4/5/2019 8:09PM - in reply to Dromano19

Kind of interesting, maybe nothing, JRN has covered YK for over 10 years, but almost nothing, so far on JRN about YK's transition to pro. Also his mother is running Boston in two weeks. And YK is getting married, and so are the brothers. All over Japan Yahoo the past two weeks.

Kind of interesting, maybe nothing, JRN has covered YK for over 10 years, but almost nothing, so far on JRN about YK's transition to pro. Also his mother is running Boston in two weeks. And YK is getting married, and so are the brothers. All over Japan Yahoo the past two weeks.

Should we assume that Brett Larner /JRN is butt hurt over the freedom YK has now..? The silence is not usual; the Kawauchi counter has been taken down, its way too coincidental that as YK has ‘grown up’ ...Brett has killed the Yuki fan train.